Recording the location of people using location-acquisition technologies, such as GPS, allows generating life patterns, which associate people to places they frequently visit. Con...
In spite of the many decades of progress in database research, surprisingly scientists in the life sciences community still struggle with inefficient and awkward tools for queryin...
A class of database programs exist which are required to operate over an infinite number of types; included in this class are object browsers and query tools. The types over which...
In this work we look at combining emerging technologies in programming languages with traditional query processing techniques to provide support for efficient execution of declarat...
Efficient evaluation of similarity queries is one of the basic requirements for advanced multimedia applications. In this paper, we consider the relevant case where complex similar...